mille lacs 2020 Mille Lacs Lake Fishing Reports

[Jarrid Houston]

Fishing was very slow for us the last 4 days on Mille lacs out of 6 dudes and 4 days we caught 7 eyes, a pike, 4 perch, and a tully. Missed some alon the way. Last day we marked all afternoon an even had aggressive fish on the graph. But could not find what they wanted.. Had a blast anyway! On to URL to hopefully do a lot better..

Here are some of the nicer fish

[Bogie04]

Good looking fish!!

[Stick in Mud]

Bet that pike was fun!

How long was she?

[Stick in Mud]

Ugh, bad night on the Pond tonight--worst of the year thus far, in fact. Zero fish, zero bites, but at least I've still got plenty of bait!

[Stick in Mud]

One this morning. Apparently the walleyes forgot about how good of a spot I'm on....

[RiverChuckNorris]

One this morning. Apparently the walleyes forgot about how good of a spot I'm on....

I hate it when that happens!!!

[slicjigger]

Any suggestions on where to find some jumbos? Are they in the mud? Sand? Going for the extravaganza and just like to have a chance!

[Stick in Mud]

No kidding. I've been on Secret Spot #3 for over a month now, and these fish have obviously forgotten where it's at.

Don't tell anyone, but I had one bite tonight, and I missed it. I'm still in 6 feet of water; maybe tomorrow I'll swing out deep and hit 7 feet.

[sportfish]

How is the travel conditions? can a guy get off the plowed roads with a wheel house and move around a little ?

[broman]

How is the travel conditions? can a guy get off the plowed roads with a wheel house and move around a little ?

[Stick in Mud]

Nice to hear you got into them, broman. I really struggled this weekend...missed a few fish, brought four up the hole, and I was out all weekend. Can't get 'em every time.

[BlackArrow1]

I'm gonna go out on a sore limb here. See a previous thread was shut down. State of the lake issue. I am Mille Lacs tribe and planned on exercising this spring for netting. I also enjoyed nice angling this year. However, from recent reports I am opting out from that harvest. I'm not against our rights, just agree that something is unbalanced. I'm just one who believes in finding out what the problem is. I've never netted. But planned to and will harvest in the future, lake pending. If that season PROVES, to be the demise, then I'm out. Until the lake makes a healthy return. I'm just one. Don't label it as all. We do care.

[CC Hurl]

Nice pics Jarrid, that pike photo is awesome.

BlackArrow1, I believe you do care, as we all should.

[buckpredator]

Got into some jumbos last friday up on the pond

[slicjigger]

Buck, care to share what side of the lake? What access you go out from?

[BartmanMN]

So there are still Jumbos in the lake. Nice pics, hopefully I can find some this weekend.

[waterfowl101]

was up friday to monday, ended up with 12 jumbos ranging from 11 to 14 inches, and 6 CPR walleyes- 16" 17 19 19 22 22, fished on the bottom edge of the mud. 32 fow.

[buckpredator]

We went out of the east side, but truth is we were all over scouting around for different spots for this weekends perch extravaganza. We got stuck twice and each of us brought our own augers and burnt through a tank and a half of gas. The theme is simple if your not satisfied, keep on drilling.

[walleyeking19]

Buck, how deep is the snow up on the lake? I wanna pull our 12 foot wheelhouse up there this weekend, I just want to make sure we'll be able to get around with getting stuck all the time

[buckpredator]

The snow isn't actually that deep. It was more of a mechanical problem then a snow depth problem. I'd say over most of the lake its 4-8 inches, But there are many deeper drifts.

[TRZ II]

Nice work Buck! Thats ALOT of work for 2 guys to get 8 jumbos. They sure are tough to come by this year. I was out drilling some holes on sat. too and only came up with 2 perch and 7 tullies for 3 guys all afternoon. Fished from Highway bar to Spirit island. Did find most of the tullies on the deep mud near Spirit. Got a few 15" tullies.

[Stick in Mud]

Had an OK evening yesterday and morning today....Got two last night and two this morning. One keeper, the rest in the low to mid 20's.

[Stick in Mud]

A very humbling night for Carmike the Younger. Carmike the Elder somehow, someway, amazingly caught five fish overnight. The Younger only pulled in an eel pout.

At least I have something to take home for dinner.

[Stick in Mud]

In an attempt to be slightly-less-than-always lazy, the Old Man and I went out searching for some perch....found a flat, drove a half mile off it, punched a few dozen holes, and ended up with enough to brag about to the (other) lazy folks who stayed in their fishhouses.

Dad went out to the deep house and caught three walleyes. I went in to the shallow house and missed one (don't tell anybody).

[TruthWalleyes]

Got a 27 and a 27.5 last night. Jingle meter went 3 other times and they got my bait.

Both very healthy fish, all in the same hole. Sucker and big green northland jig.

Had a close call with co poisoning as well

[Stick in Mud]

Good to hear you're still around, Truth. You using a Buddy heater in the house? Sunflower heater?

[sportfish]

Fished 34 ' deep off of a big flat last night . We cot 4 and missed 4 between 5 pm-10 pm . and one this morning . all on shiners

[TruthWalleyes]

Good to hear you're still around, Truth. You using a Buddy heater in the house? Sunflower heater?

Both. Buddy quit working around 2 am and around 430 the sunflower quit. Couldn't get any of my lighters to work, then it dawned on me, i went outside and lighter worked fine. Lit a torch, and it would go out the second it entered the hub house. Aired it out real good.

I recall lighting a cigarette at 8 pm with my sunflower heater because my lighters weren't working.....duh buddy no oxygen.

Slept well though lol. Lesson learned. Zero wind = open door, lighter don't work....no oxygen. Got lucky...and a two personal best walleyes.

[greenbackslayer]

Wow that is a great lesson to be learned. Glad your ok and congrats and the two hogs. Would have been a beautiful day to be out there today boy.

[Stick in Mud]

Those sunflower heaters are dangerous....for my money, I'd rather sleep cold in a couple of sleeping bags than leave one of those things running all night.

It must not have been TOO bad if the rattle reels woke you up, though...